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Fin vs Bin - What's the difference?

fin | bin |

In transitive terms the difference between fin and bin

is that fin is to provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins while bin is to place into a bin for storage.

As a proper noun Fin

is commune in the Somme department in France.

As a contraction bin is

contraction of being.

fin

English

(wikipedia fin)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (ichthyology) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
  • * , chapter=4
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
  • A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
  • A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
  • A similar structure on the tail of a bomb, used to help keep it on course.
  • A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
  • A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
  • An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
  • A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
    • Synonyms
    * (appendange of a fish) * (appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal) flipper (of mammals) * (aircraft component) * (of a bomb) vane * (hairstyle) Mohican * (device worn by divers) flipper
    Derived terms
    * anal fin * caudal fin * dorsal fin * finning * paired fins * pectoral fin * pelvic fin * tail fin * unpaired fins

    Verb

  • (senseid)To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
  • To swim in the manner of a fish.
    • A neutrally buoyant diver does not need to fin to maintain depth.
  • To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, slang) A five-dollar bill.
    • Synonyms
    * (five-dollar bill) fiver, Lincoln

    Anagrams

    * (l) English three-letter words ----

    bin

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
  • A container for rubbish or waste.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins . Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc.
    • Synonyms
    * (container) container, receptacle * (container for waste) dustbin, rubbish bin (both British), garbage can, trash can (both US)

    Verb

    (binn)
  • To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
  • * 2008 , , Falling Sideways , Orbit books, ISBN 1-84149-110-1, p. 28:
  • To throw away, reject, give up.
  • * 2002 , Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-210054-8, p. 59:
  • * 2005 , Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia , I.B. Tauris, ISBN 1-850438-89-7, p. 238:
  • (label) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
  • (label) To place into a bin for storage.
    • Synonyms
    * (dispose of in a bin) chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, ditch, dump, junk, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash * See also

    Derived terms

    {{der3, bin bag , bin liner , binman , bread bin , dustbin , rubbish bin , wheelie bin}}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (head)
  • (lb) son of; equivalent to Hebrew .

    • Etymology 3

    Contraction of being

    Contraction

    (en-contraction)
  • (label) Contraction of being

    • Etymology 4

    Contraction of been

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 5

    Short for (binary).

    Noun

    (-)

    • Anagrams

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